A "shirtless at the 7-Eleven ping" is in order for Iowahawk and Mr. Fierro.
Posted on 06/22/2009 8:49:41 PM PDT by JeepInMazar
FORT PIERCE — A 40-year-old man who is suspected of trying to sell bread as crack cocaine to pay bills is facing charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.
A deputy about 12:50 a.m. Sunday saw a man identified as Timothy Allen Riggin, of the 600 block of Avenue E, peeking around the rear building of the Nowalk Motel.
Riggin ran from the deputy, but was apprehended near U.S. 1. Investigators turned up several pieces of faux crack cocaine in his pocket, according to the affidavit.
“When I located the counterfeit crack, the male immediately said it was bread,” the affidavit states. “I asked him what he meant and he said it is fake crack.”
Riggin, listed as unemployed, said he was trying to sell the bogus crack to pay bills, according to the report.
He faces a felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a convenience store charge and a misdemeanor count of resisting without violence.
What law did he break? Defrauding dope heads? It is bread not crack. Yeah it is stupid but law did he break?
This is so wrong - it should not be a serious crime to hoodwink a drug user :-)
Crack wheat?
WTF did America go?
/johnny
Are you sure this isn’t from The Onion?
Within 1,000 feet of a convenience store?? Is it possible to NOT be within 1000 ft of a convenience store in some parts of Florida?? Geez might as well ask him to be 1000ft from a nursing home as well!! LOL
Glad to see the cops are pursuing such dangerous criminals. Stupid War on Drug Users. Lemme guess, the penalty for false advertising is death by stoning?
The perp did have some awesome poppy seed buns.
Yeah, I hope there are laws requiring truth in advertising. I would be PISSED if someone tried to sell me bunk!
I’m sure the Better Business Bureau has a thick case file on this guy for crack fraud.
The article says, "felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a convenience store." WTF?!! Sounds like some goofy state law. The convenience store doesn't like the competition?
FORT PIERCE?
I guess people ripping off drug users is a whole new thing for the cops in Fort Pierce.
lol...
It’s often referred to as the “burn rule”.
lol...Florida's big industries, greedy marts and old folks homes.
Florida law.
831.31 Counterfeit controlled substance; sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver.--
(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell, manufacture, or deliver, or to possess with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, a counterfeit controlled substance.
I haven't found the additional element of "within 1,000 feet of a convenience store." I'm guessing that's a general offense enhancement found in some other section of Florida law, as the state attempts to keep the riff raff away from the convenience stores.
PORT ST. LUCIE - A planned trick on a friend involving a bag of parsley turned into an arrest for a 15-year-old local boy, according to a police report released Monday. ...The [15 year old] boy said he was going to play a trick on his friend. He said he had a bag of parsley that he was going to make his friend think was marijuana. The parsley, which he got from his kitchen cabinet, was in a clear plastic bag and appeared similar to pot. ...
The 15-year-old boy was arrested on a charge of possession of a counterfeit controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
Barry Soetoro sold himself as an American.
Selling magic beans is now illegal?
This is your brain. This is your brain on bread? Yummy. Any questeeeooohhhhnns?
Oabama tried to sell me flour as meth.
As proof - go to his house in Chicago in the pantry you’ll see the flour.
i have to wonder if the reason selling fake drugs is against the law is for the simple reason you could end up being murdered in a really nasty way.
They spend time and money trying to convict this dope and let child molesters get breaks and not spend any time in jail. I can’t believe I’m saying this but they should let go the convicts doing time for possession of pot (not with the intent to sell) just the low level users and jail all the hard criminals. If they convict this guy, Florida law is really messed up and useless.
I think a lot of us here, not me of course, but generally a lot of us, could be charged with this crime. Do YOU have flour or bread or sugar or salt or baking powder?
So he’s guilty of perpetrating a fraud against customers of the Mob. That’s just terrible. The defaults to come, though, will put the Mob out of business (no more government salaries).
A "shirtless at the 7-Eleven ping" is in order for Iowahawk and Mr. Fierro.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous, which (to be fair) he’s earned.
Seems ‘off’ when you read the charges.
Is bread dangerous? I know the government is cracking down on Cheerios.
Sounds like the Consumer Protection Agency has inserted itself in the middle of the drug war. Making certain that the drugs you buy are real.
:)
I absolutely hate it when I get bread instead of crack.
No problem. Hire a phony lawyer and negotiate for a fake sentence in an imaginary prison.
Puh-leez.
I'm the good-lookin' one.
You're the one wearing the red suit with the pointy hat?
I like your solution!
Waay back in High School...our school decided that they were not only going to prohibit the consumption of alcohol on school premises and at school events, but also "look-alike alcohol"
A few friends and I decided we would push buttons and tempt fate by becoming look-alike alcoholics, and consumed every beverage during our senior year out of brown paper bags. We brought brown paper bags to the lunch room and would sip our cafeteria milk cartons out of a crinkled paper bag. It drove the administration nuts. These days we'd probably be arrested and/or put in foster homes.
LOL!! What the hell?
That's the nanny state fer ya, and as good an explanation as any. Doesn't a user normally snort or smoke cocaine? Why it would be an outrage if he had a wheat allergy, or got a headful of the fumes of burnt toast.
bttt
White kids from the 'burbs who'd never seen crack before and wanted to try it. They drove straight to the 'hood and started asking homies hanging out on the street where to score. Some derelict picked up gravel off the pavement and sold it to them for $40.
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